New York Post's Page Six reported that it has obtained audio
of the rapper having a meltdown over part of his performance
stage being ripped out.

“Look at that s---, they took my f------ stage off’a
'SNL' without asking me," the man reported to be West says in the
audio. "I am bummed … If I am going to do this we are breaking
the motherf------ internet.”

He later goes on a rampage about being "50% more
influential" than several well-known people, such as iconic
filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, legendary artist Pablo Picasso,
and Paul the Apostle.

“Are they f------ crazy? Whoa by 50% [I am more influential
than] Stanley Kubrick, Picasso, Apostle Paul, f------ Picasso,
and Escobar. By 50% more influential than any other human being.
Don’t f--- with me. Don’t f--- with me. Don’t f--- with me. By
50% dead or alive, by 50% for the next 1,000 years. Stanley
Kubrick, ‘Ye.”

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West performing on "SNL."NBC

West allegedly had the meltdown just before he was to take the
"SNL" stage late on Saturday. The show's executive producer,
Lorne Michaels, and West's wife, Kim Kardashian-West, reportedly
had to calm him down amid the rapper's threat to leave without
performing.

One of Page Six's sources said, "Right before he was
about to go on live television they took his stage apart. Like
any artist, he’s a perfectionist, and wanted his performance to
be right. Of course he was upset.”

Business Insider reached out to West's representative for
comment.

It has been a controversial couple of weeks for the rapper.
The angry "SNL" tirade followed the listening party for his new album, "The
Life of Pablo," and fashion show at Madison Square Garden last
week during New York Fashion Week.